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| author | Etienne Basset <etienne.basset@numericable.fr> | 2009-04-16 23:58:42 +0200 |
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| committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2009-04-18 12:58:25 +1000 |
| commit | defc433ba3bc587826bb467ce0e63452deafa65d (patch) | |
| tree | fb11744178f227598b1b26e1c6f24041261c3b98 /security/smack | |
| parent | aefe6475720bd5eb8aacbc881488f3aa65618562 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-defc433ba3bc587826bb467ce0e63452deafa65d.tar.gz lwn-defc433ba3bc587826bb467ce0e63452deafa65d.zip | |
Smack: check for SMACK xattr validity in smack_inode_setxattr
the following patch moves checks for SMACK xattr validity
from smack_inode_post_setxattr (which cannot return an error to the user)
to smack_inode_setxattr (which can return an error).
Signed-off-by: Etienne Basset <etienne.basset@numericable.fr>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/smack')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c index 921514902eca..98b3195347ab 100644 --- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c +++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c @@ -609,8 +609,12 @@ static int smack_inode_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, strcmp(name, XATTR_NAME_SMACKIPOUT) == 0) { if (!capable(CAP_MAC_ADMIN)) rc = -EPERM; - /* a label cannot be void and cannot begin with '-' */ - if (size == 0 || (size > 0 && ((char *)value)[0] == '-')) + /* + * check label validity here so import wont fail on + * post_setxattr + */ + if (size == 0 || size >= SMK_LABELLEN || + smk_import(value, size) == NULL) rc = -EINVAL; } else rc = cap_inode_setxattr(dentry, name, value, size, flags); @@ -644,9 +648,6 @@ static void smack_inode_post_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, if (strcmp(name, XATTR_NAME_SMACK)) return; - if (size >= SMK_LABELLEN) - return; - isp = dentry->d_inode->i_security; /* |